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History, EarlyView.Abstract From the mid‐1950s onward, Hungarian engineers became deeply involved in the rapidly expanding technoscientific internationalism of the period, notably through their participation in several international scholarly associations devoted to both scientific and technical disciplines.
Jules Siran
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Memellanders in Norway after World War 2
Genocidas ir RezistencijaIn the aftermath of World War II, a group of 843 individuals from the area that today constitutes Lithuania found themselves stranded in Norway. Included among them were a number of people from the formerly German Memel region (Klaipėdos kraštas).
David Sætre Ludvigsen
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Przemiany narodowościowe w Kraju Kłajpedzkim w XX wieku
Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa, 2022 Population Transformations in the Klaipeda Region in the 20th Century The Klaipeda Region is now an integral part of Lithuania. This was not, however, always the case; the region has a strong German history.
Piotr Eberhardt
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A theory of political divergence and gradual institutional change
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Why do some societies succeed in breaking away from historical traditions while others remain trapped? This paper proposes a formal theory to investigate the interaction between short‐run and long‐run political dynamics, highlighting a co‐evolution of political institutions and social structures.
Clair Yang
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East Prussia in Józef Piłsudski’s German policy
, 2013 East Prussia never belonged to Marshal Józef Piłsudski’s sphere of serious interest, irrespective of the period of his political activity. Both in the territorial and military context, East Prussia was merely a derivative of general guidelines of ...
Kempa, Robert
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The effect of investment in children’s education on fertility in 1816 Prussia [PDF]
, 2010 The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern economic growth.
Cinnirella, Francesco +5 more
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O vozmozhnostjah ispol'zovanija istoricheskogo opyta tehnologij povyshenija plodorodija pochv v Vostochnoj Prussii v sel'skohozjajstvennom predprinimatel'stve Kaliningradskoj oblasti [On the possibility to adopt the historical practice of applying technologies for land fertility increase in Eastern Prussia at agricultural enterprises of the Kaliningrad region] [PDF]
Балтийский регион, 2012 This article considers the features of East Prussian land use system, whose crucial component was technologies for land fertility increase. A special package of measures in the framework of melioration and irrigation activities accounted for the high ...
Levina Roza, Voloshenko Ksenya
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The 1430s were characterized by extreme weather conditions, food and fodder shortages, and high mortalities among animals and humans, although the severity of events and their consequences in England have received limited attention. The economic downturn and the depressed customary land market in this decade marked the beginning of the Great ...
Mark Bailey
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Klio, 2011 „Jahresberichten” As the Source of the History of Education (the Example of the Secondary School Reports in the19th Century East Prussia) Summary One of the most important tasks of the Prussian secondary schools, reformed in theyears 1808–1812, was ...
Tomasz Chrzanowski
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Innovation and the great divergence
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Recent historical national accounting data show that the timing of the Great Divergence hinges on the different trends in north‐west Europe and the Yangzi Delta region of China. Although north‐west Europe only pulled ahead of the Yangzi Delta after 1700, both the positive trend of GDP per capita in north‐west Europe after 1700 and the negative
Stephen Broadberry, Runzhuo Zhai
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